It seemed a long time to Naomi that Solomon the goldbeater and Jacob the serving-lad, standing at a little distance from the wall, haggled over the load of grapes. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas Light] Reference
Selling w-scraped oboe reeds made with goldbeater skin or running a dance studio dedicated to a genre from a tiny Pacific island, might seem like losing propositions. From Wordnik.com. [ArtsJournal: Daily Arts News] Reference
The first attempt to create a popular drama was made by Lope de Rueda, a goldbeater of Seville, who flourished between 1544 and 1567, and who became both a dramatic writer and an actor. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities] Reference
A large surface with a grain of ore -- like the goldbeater, who, out of a single guinea, will compose a score of books. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Own] Reference
Street, London, goldbeater, "as Christopher's co-surety for the payment of the second moiety within three months. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649] Reference
Beyond these stretched far away to the east other shops -- those of a mealman, a lapidary, a cordwainer -- namely, a shoemaker; a lindraper, for they had not yet added the syllable which makes it linen; a lorimer, who dealt in bits and bridles; a pouchmonger, who sold bags and pockets; a parchment-maker; a treaclemonger, a spicer, a chandler, and a pepperer, all four the representatives of our modern grocer; an apothecary; a scrivener, who wrote for the numerous persons who could not write; a fuller, who cleaned clothes; a tapiser, who sold tapestry, universally used for hangings of rooms; a barber, an armourer, a spurrier, a scourer, a dyer, a glover, a turner, a goldbeater, an upholdester or upholsterer, a toothdrawer, a buckler-maker, a fletcher (who feathered arrows), a poulter or poulterer, a vinter or wine-merchant, a pewterer. From Wordnik.com. [The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century] Reference
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